Kneading-board.



No. 650,462. Patented May 29, I900.

a. HOLLIDAY.

KNEADING BOARD.

[Application filed on. 20, 1899.) {No Model.)

V UNITED STATES 1 PATENT OFFICE.

GAVIN HOLLIDAY, OF SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS.

KNEADING-EOARfi.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,4?32, dated May 29,1900. Applicatlonfiled October 20, 1899. Serial No. 734,193 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GAVIN HOLLIDAY, a citizen of-the United States,residing at Saw gus,in the'county of Essex and State of Massa c'husetts,have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Kneading-Boards;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in kneading-boards.

Heretofore it has been customary in rolling dough with a rolling-pin toturn the dough around at an angle to the direction of the previousstroke of the rolling-pin, so that the subsequent stroke thereof shallroll the dough in a difierent direction from the previous stroke.

The object of my invention is to make a kneading-board which may beturned around to present it to the rolling-pin at different angles.

To the above end the present invention consists in the kneading-boardhereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred form of myinvention, Figure l is a plan, Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation, and Fig.3 is a section, of the board, showing the locking device hereinafterdescribed.

My invention contemplates a dough-board and means for -rotatablysupporting said board thereon. Any suitable meansmay be employed tosupport the dough-board-such as. the base 1, in which a pin 3 is fixedlysecured and upon which the dough-board 2 loosely fits. The pin might, ifpreferred, be

secured in the board and loosely engage the support. In use the doughwill be laid upon the dough-board 2 and the rolling-pin will be rolledacross the dough. Then the doughboard may be turned at an angle to thedirection of the first stroke of the rolling-pin and again rolled. Inthis way the dough is stretched equally in all directions and easilyturned from one position to another to secure this result. The doughboard 2 is easily turned by the hand or by the pressure of one end ofthe rolling pin upon the board or dough.

vice Which will permit the dough-board 2 to be turned in one directionand prevented from rotating in the opposite direction. Any suitablelooking or latching device may be employed for this purpose, and it maybe so arranged as to permit the rotation of Y the kneading-board ineither the one direction or the other; but I prefer to so arrange thelooking device that the kneading-board may be rotated to the right. Thepreferred embodiment of the locking device is illustrated in thedrawings, in which a dog 4 is mounted in the base 1, which I preferablymake in the form of a board, and pressed in a direction to engage thedough-board 2 by means of a spring. In the illustrated embodiment I haveshown the spring as a flat piece of spring-metal 5, which is secured atthe bottom of a recess 6 in the base-board by means of a screw. Upon theopposite side of the spring 5 the dog t is mounted. The under side ofthe dough-board 2 is provided with a number of locking-recesses 7, ofwhich I prefer to employ four, situated at right angles to each other.The locking-dog t may be mounted either in the base-board 1, as shown,or it may be mounted in a similar manner in the dough-board 2, both ofwhich constructions are within the spirit of my invention.

In order to facilitate the turning of the dough-board 2, I prefer toprovide its periphery with a series of finger-receiving projections 8,of which any suitable number may be employed and which should preferablycorrespond in number to the number of locking-recesses 7.

The operation of the device is as follows: The turning of the board canbe accomplished by engaging one of the finger-receiving proj ectionswith the hand and turning it through a right angle, the locking deviceholding the board from moving in the opposite direction after thepartial rotation has been made.

It will be noted that after having been in use my kneading-board iscapable of being taken apart for the purpose of cleaning the same, andfor this purpose the dough-board with a dough-board, of means forrotatably supporting said board and means for locking said board fromrotation in one direction, substantially as described.

4. In a kneading-board, the combination with a dough-board, provided onits periphery with finger-receiving projections and means for rotatablysupporting said board, substantially as described.

5. In a kneading-board, the combination with a dough-board provided onits periphery with finger-receiving projections, of means for rotatablysupporting said board and means for locking said board from rotation inone direction, substantially as described.

6. In a kneading-board, the combination with a base, of a dough-boardrotatably supported thereon, a spring-pressed locking device for lockingthe said board from rotation in one direction, substantially asdescribed.

'7. In a kneading-board, the combination with a base, provided with apin, of a dough board rotatably mounted on said pin, pro.

dough-board from rotation in one direction,

substantially as described.

8. In a kneading-board, the combination with a base provided with arecess, provided in its center with a pin, of a circular doughboardprovided in its periphery with fingerreceiving projections and on itsunder side with a series of locking-recesses and a centrally-disposedhole to receive the said pin, and a locking device consisting of aspring secured to the bottom of the said recess in the base and'provided with a locking-dog adapted to project upwardly to engage thelocking-recesses in the kneading-board, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence or two witnesses.

GAVIN HOLLIDAY.

